Summary

The narrator is a physician who has just saved an elderly woman from a "natural death" only to lead her to an "ungraceful one" as her life is maintained and monitored by machines. Images of a distant farm are conjured as the doctor wishes instead for his patient's spirit to rest peacefully at home.

Primary Source

Poetry: A Collection of Poems Written by Medical Students, 1983-1985

Publisher

Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

Place Published

Rootstown, Ohio

Edition

1986

Editor

Martin Kohn, Delese Wear, & Susan Jamison